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Sands of Time 2

Coils of Time

by P. Schuyler Miller
You’ll need some patience with “Coils of Time," seeing as how it takes the hero, Rutherford Bohr Adams, twenty-some pages before you’ll realize that the story is a sequel to “The Sands of Time,” and it’s going to fall to space pilot Adams to travel through the 60-million-year coils of times into the future and the past, saving Earth from the evil Martians and their zombies, while also saving his own boss’s beautiful daughter from a fate worth than death.
— Michael Main
It’s another form of the space-time field that I use in the Egg to bridge the gap between the coils of time.
“Coils of Time” by P. Schuyler Miller, Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1939.

Unusual Tales #20

The Time Cap

by Joe Gill [?] and Bill Molno
Phil Winship, an executive at an American company in Iran, finds an odd cap in the desert that transports him to a strange laboratory.
— Michael Main
Now I realize what happened! This cap is some sort of time-travelling device!
“The Time Cap” by Joe Gill [?] and Bill Molno, Unusual Tales #20 (Charlton Comics, January 1960).

“Willie’s Blues”

by Robert J. Tilley
A music historian travels back to the 1930s to uncover the real story of how Willie Turnhill rose from an extra in the Curry Band to tenor sax virtuoso ever.
— Michael Main
He thinks of me now as the one person who’ll be able to say who’s the original and who’s the plagiarist when “the other guy” does eventually turn up!
“‘Willie’s Blues’” by Robert J. Tilley, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1972.

Harry Potter 3

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

by Steve Kloves, directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Compared to the books, I find the Harry Potter movies drawn-out and boring, but I rewatched this one during the pandemic and found that I enjoyed all three thirteen-year-olds as well as Hagrid, Sirius, Snape, Lupin, and—most of all—the fact that the filmmakers didn’t blithely destroy the single static timeline out of a misplaced sense that time travelers are meant to change the timeline willy-nilly.
— Michael Main
Hang on! That’s not possible. Ancient Runes is at the same time as Divination. You’d have to be in two classes at once.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by Steve Kloves, directed by Alfonso Cuarón (premiered at an unknown movie theater, New York City, 23 May 2004).

No Time

by Andrew Bale
A battlefield plunderer meets his own dead self.
You get attacked, you have no backup, so you become your own.
“No Time” by Andrew Bale, 365 Tomorrows, 13 August 2011 [webzine].

Witchcraft Mysteries 6

A Vision in Velvet

by Juliet Blackwell
To save her pet pig/gargoyle/familiar, shopkeeper and fabric whisperer Lily Ivory must solve a mystery using clues picked up via a traveling cloak that spirits her off to the Salem witch trials.
— Inmate Jan
The cape was in the trunk. When I put it on . . . It’s hard to explain, but it was as though I had been transported to another time and place.
A Vision in Velvet by Juliet Blackwell (Obsidian Mystery, July 2014) [print · e-book].

Marvel Cinematic Universe 14

Doctor Strange

by Jon Spaihts, Scott Derrickson, and C. Robert Cargill, directed by Scott Derrickson
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
— from publicity material
Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain.
Doctor Strange by Jon Spaihts, Scott Derrickson, and C. Robert Cargill, directed by Scott Derrickson (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Hong Kong, 13 October 2016).

1989

by Shakir Ameed, directed by Shakir Ameed and Rifat Mohammed
What are you to do when you fail your high school final exams? In Shakir’s case, he decides to get his friend’s friend to send him back in time a few months to give himself a copy of the exam papers, which seems like a good plan if only he would listen to the warnings about not returning before he leaves.
— Michael Main
What do we do now? Your exams are already over, right?
1989 by Shakir Ameed, directed by Shakir Ameed and Rifat Mohammed (Youtube: Shakir Ameer Channel, 29 June 2017).

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Avengers: Infinity War

by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo
Given that the Time Stone is a key element to Thanos’s master plan, you’d think that time travel would play a major part in this movie, but not so. Doc Strange does use the stone to view a slew of possible futures, but we know that’s not actually time travel. So where does the time travel come into play? Pay close attention to the final thirteen minutes of the film, after Strange announces “We’re in the end game now,” and you’ll spot one definite time travel moment and a second possible moment.
— Michael Main
Tony, there was no other way.
Avengers: Infinity War by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 23 April 2018).

Found Things #1

The Little Shop of Found Things

by Paula Brackston
Xanthe Westlake and her mother are looking for a fresh start as owners of an antique shop in the village of Marlborough when a 17th century silver chanelaine calls to Xanthe’s psychic powers and eventually takes her on a quest to save a young servant girl in 1605 (and maybe, in the process, meet a handsome young architect with oddly modern views on women).
— Michael Main
Had she somehow crucially alterted her own present by changing Alice’s future? The thought that she might have started some terrible chain of events that she could not possibly have foreseen, nor known about, worried her more and more. It was only in the small hours of Wednesday night that an answer came to her that seemed to make sense. The present that she knew, the way things were in her time, could only have come about if she had traveled back to the past. Her finding the chatelaine, her answering Alice’s call for help, those things were necessary to shape the past and bring about the future as it was. She had to believe this. It did work. She was a part of how things had turned out, not an alternative version, but the one she was meant to live in. If she hadn’t gone back, hadn’t taken the decision to help Alice, well, that wouldhave resulted in a different future from the one she knew.
The Little Shop of Found Things by Paula Brackston (St. Martin’s Press, October 2018).

See You Yesterday

by Fredrica Bailey and Stefon Bristol, directed by Stefon Bristol
Up in the ITTDB Citadel, our first attraction is naturally to the time travel aspects of any movie, even when the result is an incomprehensible time wreck resulting from a pair of teenage geniuses. That’s what’s on the surface here, but it also seems to be a metaphor for the even bigger train wreck of the racist society in the 21st-century United States.
— Michael Main
You’re missing the big picture here: If time travel were possible, it would be the greatest ethical and philosophical conundrum of the modern age.
See You Yesterday by Fredrica Bailey and Stefon Bristol, directed by Stefon Bristol (Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, 3 May 2019).

A.N.E.W

written and directed by Godwin Josiah and Raymond Yusuff
After his broken watch causes embarrassment, a boy orders a new watch that takes him back to the embarrassing moment more than once.
— Michael Main
My watch is not working.
A.N.E.W written and directed by Godwin Josiah and Raymond Yusuff (Youtube: Critics Company Channel, 24 February 2020).

The Tomorrow War

by Zach Dean, directed by Chris McKay
Forty-year-old high school biology teacher Dan Forester is drafted for a seven-day tour of the future where he must fight what seems to be a losing cause in the war against bug/T-rex aliens.
— Michael Main
We need you to fight beside us if we stand a chance at winning this war. You are our last hope.
The Tomorrow War by Zach Dean, directed by Chris McKay (Amazon Prime, 2 July 2021).

What If . . . ? [s1e04]

What If . . . Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?

by A. C. Bradley, directed by Bryan Andrews
As we all know, when the world’s formost surgeon, Doctor Strange, lost the use of his hands in a car wreck, it prompted him to search out mystic treatments and eventually become the Master of the Mystic Arts. But what if he had lost something else in that wreck?
— Michael Main
The Ancient One: Her death is an Absolute Point in time.
Dr. Strange: Absolute?
A.O.: Unchangable. Unmovable. Without her death, you would never have defeated Dormamu and become the Sorcerer Supreme—and the guardian of the Eye of Agamotto. If you erase her death, you never start your journey.
“What If . . . Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?” by A. C. Bradley, directed by Bryan Andrews, What If . . . ? [s01e04] (Disney+, worldwide, 1 September 2021).

The Peripheral, Season 1

by Scott B. Smith, et al., directed by Vincenzo Natali and Alrick Riley
When Flynne Fisher’s ne’er-do-well brother lands a lucrative gig testing new VR tech, he drafts Flynne to do the heavy lifting, and she’s bowled over by the future world the VR has created—until she realizes it’s more than a sim.
— Michael Main
If it were time travel, as you say, you’d be here physically. This is merely a matter of data transfer: quantum tunneling is the technical term for it. I understand your confusion.
The Peripheral, Season 1 by Scott B. Smith, et al., directed by Vincenzo Natali and Alrick Riley, 8 episodes (Amazon Prime, 21 October 2022 to 2 December 2022).
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